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ARTHUR H. WOODWARD, OF'ALTADENA, CALIFORNIA, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGN- i MENTS, TO JOHNSON FARE BOX COMPANY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORPORA- TION 0F NEW YORK.

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Specification of Letters Patent. i Patented Julie 29, 1920.

.Application filed December 23, 1913. `Serial No. 808,381.

To all whom t may concern.' o Y Be it known that I, ARTHUR H. VooD- WARD, a citizen of the United States,l residing at Altadena, in the county of Los Angeles and State of California, have invented a certain new and useful lImprovement 1n Goin-Registers, of which the following is a full., clear, concise, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification. p

My invention relates to an improved form of coin register, adapted for use particu-` larly in connection with fare registering mechanism such as used upon street cars, trains7 etc., where it is desirable for the conductor to receive the fare in the form of money and keep a visible indication of the number of fares received or the amount of suchfares or both, as the case may be.

My invention relates to a form of mechanism in which the fares or coins deposited are not retained in the registering machine, but, on the other hand, pass through the machine as a result of their registration and are thus delivered to the attendant so as to avoid the necessity for the attendant tc be provided with a considerable quantity of change in excess of the money Vdeposited in the register. This form of machine is shown in the present case combined with fare registering devices adapted for use particulai-ly in connection with street car work, so that an indication is afforded at all times of the total number of fares or the total amount registered.` the faresregistered on each trip and the direct-ion of the trip.

This combination, broadly, I do not claim in the present application,4 as it is shown and claimed in an earlier' copending application. The present invention, however, is an improvement upon the earlier invention referred to in many features of the combination of the fare registering devices' and the coin register, as a result of which the combination as a whole operates in aV different manner from the mechanism shown in the earlier application to produce a different result. i

My present invention also provides an improved'form of registering mechanism for indicating the fares and amounts registered, so disposed as to be elevated in plain sight of the passengers in the car, and, in addition, the coin registering mechanism provides improved means for receiving, sorting and counting coins Vdeposited in the machine.

By my present invention I provide a mechanism in whichthel registering devices are normally free from the operating shaft of the machine, gearing being provided for operatively connecting the registering devices with the operating shaft when a coin is in place in the coin counting mechanism to prevent the free operation of certain of the parts which otherwise move uninterruptedly during rotation of the 'operating shaft. `When this motion is interrupted it causes such a changed condition of the connecting gearing that further rotation of the operating shafty advances the registering mechanism an amount determined by the size of the coin inserted in thecoin counting mechanism. Furthermore, the complete cycle of operation of the coin counting mechanism is so provided that each coin has its own definite time of modifying the action of the connecting gearing so as to advance the registering` mechanism an amount proportionate to the value of said coin, and thus I am able to register upon registering devices coins of different value, which are automatically sorted in the coin mechanism so that a continuous motion of the operating shaft serves to sort and register all of the coins deposited in the coin sorting mechanism. whether they are deposited singly or simultaneously and whether they are of the same or different size and value. as long as the coins deposited are within the range of value for which the machine is designed and constructed.

The several drawings illustrating my vention are as follows:

Figure 1 shows in side elevation the complete machine, consisting of the ,registering mechanism and coin sorting mechanism, n

Fig. 2 shows the registering devices inA front view, with the inclosing casing removed to more fully show the operating parts contained therein.

Fig. 3 is a right hand side parts shown in Fig. 2;

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